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...your mistakes." No, what finally drove Capps out the door was Apple's inability to stay relevant, to reorient itself around the Net. "If Bill Gates could say, 'I was wrong about the Web,' so can you," he told Apple's leaders, urging the company to scrap Copland, its overdue operating system, partner with a Net-savvy computer maker like Sun Microsystems, and "make Apple the Net cruiser of the '90s." They ignored him. So he left. At present he spends two to three hours a day on the Internet and is hatching a plan to use it to create...
...took action to give Clinton cover. On Wednesday police arrested a drug trafficker named Oscar Malherbe de Leon. On Thursday the Mexican navy burned a ton of seized cocaine on the resort island of Cozumel. More substantively, Time has learned, President Zedillo will soon announce that he plans to scrap Mexico's existing narcotics-fighting apparatus--including the tainted National Institute to Combat Drugs, headed by General Gutierrez--and start fresh with an independent new agency modeled on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Under the plan, the DEA, the FBI and even the CIA would be invited to help train...
...never especially cared for children. Lately, however, he has begun to feel different. With a little help from the cloning lab, he now has the opportunity to have a son who would bear not just his name and his nose and the color of his hair but every scrap of genetic coding that makes him what he is. Now that appeals to the local industrialist. In fact, if this first boy works out, he might even make a few more...
...season when Washington is turning itself inside out over the issue of access to the President--who has it, how much did they have to pay to get it, what did they get in return--it turns out that the most valuable scrap of information to have is a nine-digit number. That number is a ZIP code, one that tells the White House post office to pluck that letter from the 15,000 addressed to Bill Clinton every day and slip it directly under the President's door. The people who know the code are Clinton's oldest friends...
...used-car superstores--each planned to have 1,000 or more cars in stock, and each generating $100 million in annual revenue--will fit into his ultimate scheme. In Wayne's world, you never get attached to cars. You trade them every couple of years until they're scrap--and every stop along the way, he gets a piece of the action...